Melt Your Phace6: Aphex Twin’s Drukqs Turns 20
Looking back on the polarizing 2001 double opus of Richard D. James
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Electronics
ALBUMS: Graham Haynes meets Submerged In A Singular Soundclash
It’s impressive to find an album as immersive as Echolocation
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You Gotta Orient Myself: One of Jon Hassell’s Last Interviews
The groundbreaking soundscaper and reinventor of modern trumpet died on June 26th at age 84
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Robert Fripp At 75
From King Crimson to singing Prodigy in his kitchen, the legendary guitarist still keeps us surprised at every turn
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Sufjan Stevens: Aural Adventures in Pandemic Pop
The ever-ambitious album artist reconfigures the five stages of grief for electronic instrumentation
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Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet
What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance
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Don Giovanni Records’ Quest To Share Honest Cultural Narratives Forges On
Don Giovanni co-founder Joe Steinhardt on cultivating narrative truth, the label’s plans for 2021 and his new album with Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster
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ALBUMS: The Reintegration Loops
On Lamentations, William Basinski again indicts the concept of recorded sound as deathless zombie-like preservation, revealing instead the inherent impermanence of technology’s documentary mediums,
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The Alpha and Omega of Tommy Lee
With a bold new solo album out, we catch up with the Mötley Crüe drummer about transcending conpartmentalization
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Set The Controls For The Heart Of Pink Floyd
Read a 1997 interview from the late Richard Wright
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ALBUMS: Maria Schneider Assesses The Divide Between Nature and Technology
On Data Lords, the Grammy winning composer and bandleader takes on the Matrix on stunning double LP
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Everything’s Blue In This World: Nine Inch Nails’ Further Down The Spiral Turns 25
The Downward Spiral remix album is so much more than a remix album
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WATCH: Travis Scott Plays Fortnite
The Houston rapper has revolutionized the dynamics of the concert experience during COVID-19
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African Head Charge And The International Language of Drum
An excellent new box set chronicles the second half of Adrian Sherwood’s celebrated vision of a Psychedelic Africa
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Vows Are Spoken To Be Broken: Thirty Years Of Depeche Mode’s ‘Violator’
Looking back at when the world’s biggest synth band plugged in and played the blues
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